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A 4 phase boss that are the faces in Mount Rushmore breaking free one by one. They are just giant heads with tiny baby legs though, and stumble around falling into you for their attacks.
Great idea. I was thinking it should be one body, but the heads would rotate after each phase.
That’s good as well, but I like the idea of the switcharoo of them actually not being giants, like how people get disappointed seeing it for the first time cause it’s actually not that big
It is funny to think of being in school and having that painting on the left presented as “What do you think of this? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?” My sibling in Christ, it is an allegorical representation of the ideology of white supremacy. But at least I can understand how teachers and textbooks are handcuffed from slapping kids in the face with that.
But then you get older and encounter aunties and uncs who are like, “Well is that such a bad thing?” And yes, it is the manifestation of white nationalism! You are a white nationalist! Anyway, I clearly am not carrying around unresolved resentment, and I hope you are all having a fine evening.
Also to stay on topic, I don’t really play these types of games but I feel like Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox boss fight would be fun. Like in Doom 2016 where there’s that midgame boss in Hell that splits into two guys.
Literally the physical manifestation of the ideology that white people are entitled to land that non-white people have been living on for millennia
Reactionaries: is it really racist though?
Main character should be indigenous
Well yeah obviously; instead of classes it should be a choice between members of different indigenous nations
Can we get a black person as a deuteragonist who then goes on to singlehandedly lead a protracted peoples war aganist the prison industrical complex in an expansion? Like black flag?
Hong Kong 97 except it’s Turtle Island 1492
I want to fight this guy:
George washing tons of backs in the bathhouse
I mean sure big boss battles sounds cool too, but I’d be way more into a game playing as Mr. Bunyan, starting off as a regular woods-guy, but steadily growing bigger and bigger as your legendary appetite for flapjacks grows and you axe-ing abilities are sharpened.
Even better, the industries grow and develop with you as you’re able to supply them with an ever-increasing supply of lumber. Naturally though, you eventually get to the point where you are outstripping the regrowth programs, and you have to start wandering deeper into untamed wilds full of ever-more-vengeful crytpids that no longer have homes or natural resources to feed themselves and have turned to terrorizing human settlements to get by.
In the end, Bunyan’s connection to the wild allows him to realize the extent of the devastation he has wrought upon the land, and he realizes the only way for the natural balance to be restored is to stop the logging altogether, which naturally makes him the enemy of the insatiable appetites of the humans and their industry (acting as a narrative parrelel to his own pancake dependency), turning them against him and making for cool new lumber-mechas to battle in the last stage of the game.
Even better, the player has the unspoken option to turn against human industry at any point in the game, but the battle gets harder and harder the longer you wait to pull the trigger, eventually just becoming nigh-impossible by the time the humans develop guns, bombs, drones etc. (The secret cheat code though is that you can collectivise and organize the other workers to join you and they can help you in the final struggle.)
So basically it’s Katamari Damaci but played out in a reverse-Zelda BotW progression structure.
i could swear i’ve played a game with a similar narrative progression but i can’t for the life of me remember what it was
Well figure it out and let me know cuz that sounds cool lol.
obviously not paul bunyan specifically, just the broad “second act is realizing you’re being mislead and used for evil, third act is rampaging through your former allies”
I’d like to take down the giant hand of the free market.
Me preparing on Super Smash Bros. Melee as a kid to defeat giant hands
remember the guy who thought paul bunyan was a real person
I mean he’s just kind of a name that you hear, if you never learn about the legend I think it would be easy to just assume he was at the Alamo or something.
plus he often gets brought up alongside the more fantastical stuff attributed to Davy Crockett, who was a real guy
Johnny Appleseed also a real guy
Paul Bunyan was real, and he was Chinese.
Source: Trying to start ironic Chinese Hotep-ism
if we corrupted yeshua into “jesus” and all the stories about him are dubious at best but he was still a real guy then i’m probably willing to believe somebody with a glandular disorder cut down a tree one time who had a name that slant-rhymes with bunyan in an old-timey accent.
Paul is originally a semitic name (Middle East) and Boonyaan is the Arabic word for buildings…Paul Bunyan was maybe an Arab Jewish person?
oh shit paul bunyan is mormon jesus
mount rushmore is actually a 5 headed demon
What’s the fifth head?
That’s the fun part
Statue of liberty as a giant mecha you can control like in doom the dark ages
Clair Obscur: Copper Gear Rising
Okay, this idea goes hard af.
I’d play this, for sure
player character John Henry
hell yeah the game intro can be him in a tunnel driving steel much like the Elden Ring intro with Marika/Radagon. Disney’s 2000 movie about John Henry basically
There’s a movie?! Is it all as beautifully animated as this gif?
More of ahistorical short film than a feature length film, but yeah it is part of a collection that has shorts about Johnny Appleseed, Paul Henry, and like Paul Bunyan. I remember watching it in elementary school social studies and it is the only reason I actually know who John Henry is because I certainly didn’t learn about him in any other history class.
Here’s a (mid quality) link to the short itself if you wanna watch it: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8j5793
Alternative PCs:
Tecumseh
John Brown
Pocahontas
Sitting Bull
Nat Turner
Imagining a Kojima soulslike where they would 1000% do this.
There should be a giant burger monster that spawns adds.
